Editing actions- replacing all of one kind/filtering

Question

I've tried searching, but can't find anyone asking this so here we go:

Say I have a long photoshop action I recorded. I want to find and delete all "view/zoom" types of actions from it. Is there a way to filter all of those out and mass delete them?

I have tried the export to xml script posted elsewhere but after 4 hours of trying to export (processing) I assumed it was too long and gave up. For work, most of these actions are very long and I see no easy way to replace/remove all of specific action types. Manual is very slow, and many get lost in the list when you scroll and try to do it manually (as in, hard to pick out) and not removed because of this.

Does anyone know how this might be done? Or am I SOL? Thanks.

r-bin · Accepted Answer

It's not very clear what exactly you want to delete.

This script removes all "Make" commands from the ActionSet "Default Actions->Frame Channel - 50 pixel".

Modify it to suit yourself.

for (var i = 1; i < 100000; i++)
    {
    var r = new ActionReference();
    r.putIndex(stringIDToTypeID("command"), i);
    r.putName(stringIDToTypeID("action"), "Frame Channel - 50 pixel");
    r.putName(stringIDToTypeID("actionSet"), "Default Actions");

    var nm = executeActionGet(r).getString(stringIDToTypeID("name"));

//  alert(nm);

    if (nm == "Make")
        {
        var d = new ActionDescriptor();
        var r = new ActionReference();
        r.putIndex(stringIDToTypeID("command"), i);
        r.putName(stringIDToTypeID("action"), "Frame Channel - 50 pixel");
        r.putName(stringIDToTypeID("actionSet"), "Default Actions");
        d.putReference(stringIDToTypeID("null"), r);
        executeAction(stringIDToTypeID("delete"), d, DialogModes.NO);

        --i;
        }
    }

Stephen Marsh · Answer

Can you share the action or unedited XML and a screenshot clearly indicating the action steps to be removed.

It's really easy to make a mistake when editing the XML, although tedious, it's much safer to just edit the action steps directly in Photoshop. Much easier to convert to JSX and edit that if you don't need to take it back to an action.

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